Can Finland and Sweden help decarbonize EU economies?
Demand for key metals is booming. Geopolitical realities and pandemic-related supply chain issues are increasing the pressure on EU countries to proceed with mining activities...
Category : ESG
Outokump’s Kemi chrome mine in Finland targeting carbon neutrality by 2025
Outokumpu says it has established a roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality at its Kemi underground chrome mine in Finland by 2025. The roadmap includes several...
After campaign to ban fracking, locals face ‘another carbon-heavy extractive industry
Community leaders in Co Leitrim say they feel “under siege” after learning that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan intends to...
Norilsk is no longer Russia’s most polluted city
By placing environmental protection at the core of its operations, mining giant Nornickel is cleaning up what was hitherto one of the planet’s most polluted...
Ireland’s sustainable mining future
In order to ensure the transition to a green economy, Ireland and Europe must be open to exploration and mining of “critical metals”, according to...
Mining in Greenland environmental frontline of global warming
In Greenland, there are currently around 70 large-scale exploration and exploitation licences. As a result, environmental organisations fear that opening up the floodgates to mining...
Closure of Nornickel’s plant, Barents region’s biggest air polluter
Oligarch and Nornickel CEO Vladimir Potanin first announced the closure of the plant last fall, a move affecting about 800 workers. With just six weeks before the shutdown, only two...
Mining profit in Serbia above clean air
Arsenic pollution during August in Serbian city Bor reached 323 times higher level, which suggests that the profit won the victory over ecology, according to...
Armenian government funding for Amulsar gold mine harms country’s biodiversity
A new complaint is filed at the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, known as the ‘Bern Convention’ because The Armenian...
International mining companies in North Macedonia face resistance from local initiatives
Taught by examples of environmental and social harms that international mining companies leave behind in the Balkans, local communities in North Macedonia have opposed the...